What kind of moron arranger...

[SOTSDO]

....writes a reed part with a two bar switch from baritone sax to bassoon, followed five bars later by a switch back to bassoon? I'm dealing with this in god-awful Seussical right now, and I am not happy with how it comes out.

Dealing with a bassoon part in a show is bad enough when it's not doubled with flute and clarinet and baritone - throw all of the changes in and you have a potential disaster in the making.

The show is apparently "through sung", and there are a number of spots where there is a prominent bassoon solo shortly after honking along on the baritone for hundreds of bars,. Putting exposed parts at the start of a change like that is just asking for things to go wrong.

 

[Gandalfe]

See this all the time in Big Band charts. No problem doing a clarinet to bari swap. But two measures to do a tenor to bari is just insane.

 

[bobsax]

I'd complain to the composer.
Hack arranging makes him look bad.
I saw it with my young daughter.
It must have been a downsized pit orchestra.
I think there were only two of three wind instruments.
..maybe trumpet , bone and woodwind doubler.
a quick google reveals the show has been reworked several timeshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seussical
maybe that's the problem?